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[Q] linux not seeing solid state "floppy"



try looking at the linux code that hits the bios to determine devices -- I
bet your flash ram doesn't implement the bits and pieces of the drive
parameter tables and all that guff that is needed by linux.

At 12:02 AM 8/1/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>In a 486 system, DOS can see a flash RAM "floppy" as A:
>but linux cannot detect it at all.
>Has any dealt with these critters before and
>know how to get linux to deal with them?
>
>--
>Robert Luoma    <luoma at capybara.pn.com>
>
>





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